Who wants armour for Christmas?

Just the thing for a costume party, or that Global Empire thing you’ve been working on.

I’m upgrading my stock, so I have 6 sets of various sizes of this Corbridge A style armour as shown.

They are all hand made of aluminium, making them lightweight, comfortable and low maintainence. All are up for grabs at $350 each ($240 USD) + shipping to wherever you are. All are in excellent condition and will be cleaned and buffed before they go out.

If you want something flashier, then I can make one to your requirements in aluminium with brass fittings for $500 ($350 US), or mild steel with brass for $550. Helmets & belts are extra. Yes, I do kids sizes too, but the price isn’t much different, it’s the work not the materials that cost.

Contact me here.

Peter Costello.

Politican, treasurer and rock star!

Meanwhile, I bet Peter Garrett NEVER expected his own song to come back and bite him is the ass like roid raged croc with an attitude problem.

Hey Garrett, irony doesn’t mean it’s got lots of iron in it.

Get a haircut yer hippie.

Why no one gets presents from me.

Wrapping Presents (With the assistance of a Cat)

1. Clear large space on table for wrapping present.
2. Go to wardrobe and collect bag in which present is contained, and close door.
3. Open door and remove cat from wardrobe.
4. Go to cupboard and retrieve rolls of wrapping paper.
5. Go back and remove cat from cupboard.
6. Go to drawer and collect transparent sticky tape, ribbons, scissors, labels, etc.
7. Lay out present and wrapping materials on table, to enable wrapping strategy to be formed.
8. Go back to drawer to get string, remove cat that has been in the drawer since last visit, and collect string.
9. Remove present from bag.
10. Remove cat from bag.
11. Open box to check present, remove cat from box, replace present.
12. Lay out paper to enable cutting to size.
13. Cut the paper to size, trying to keep the cutting line straight.
14. Throw away first sheet because cat tried to chase the scissors and tore the paper.
15. Cut second sheet of paper to size by putting cat in the bag the present came out of.
16. Place present on cut-to-size paper.
17. Lift up edges of paper to seal in present, wonder why edges now don’t reach and find cat between present and paper. Remove cat and retry.
18. Place object on paper, to hold in place, while cutting transparent sticky tape.
19. Spend next 20 minutes carefully trying to remove transparent sticky tape from cat with pair of nail scissors.
20. Seal paper down with transparent sticky tape, making corners as neat as possible.
21. Look for roll of ribbon; chase cat down hall and retrieve ribbon.
22. Try to wrap present with ribbon in a two-directional turn.
23. Re-roll up ribbon and remove paper that is now torn, due to cat’s enthusiasm in chasing ribbon end.
24. Repeat steps 12-22 until down to last sheet of paper.
25. Decide to skip steps 12-16 in order to save time and reduce risk of losing last sheet of paper. Retrieve old cardboard box that you know is right
size for sheet of paper.
26. Put present in box, and tie down with string.
27. Remove string, open box and remove cat.
28. Put all packing materials in bag with present and head for lockable room.
29. Once inside room, lock door and start to re-lay out packing materials.
30. Remove cat from box, unlock door, put cat outside door, close door and re-lock.
31. Lay out last sheet of paper. (Admittedly this is difficult in the small area of the toilet, but try your best!)
32. Seal box, wrap with paper and start repairs by very carefully sealing down tears with transparent sticky tape. Now tie up with ribbon and decorate with bows to hide worst affected areas.
33. Label, then sit back and admire your handiwork, congratulating yourself on making good of a bad job.
34. Unlock door, and go to kitchen to make drink and feed cat.
35. Spend next 15 minutes looking for cat, before coming to obvious conclusion.
36. Unwrap present, untie box and remove cat.
37. Retrieve all discarded sheets of wrapping paper, feed cat and retire to lockable room for last attempt, making certain you are alone and the door is locked.
38. At time of handing over present, smile sweetly at receiver’s face, as they try and hide their contempt at being handed such a badly wrapped present.
39. Swear to yourself that next year, you will get the store to wrap the darn thing for you.

A couple of challenges to Keith Locke.

This is a two step challenge.

You have accused the police of being “trigger happy” with both pepper spray and the new tasers. Actually you’ve made a LOT of accusations in your time, and as always you provide little more than your own prejudice to back them up.

The police appear to be resorting to pepper spray much too often. In March the Police Minister informed me that pepper spray had been used 2000 times during 2005.”

[See answer to parliamentary Written Question 00854 (2006)]

It is hard to imagine that there were 2000 occasions requiring such an excruciatingly painful and debilitating measure as pepper-spraying.

I have no doubt there are MANY things that you find difficult to imagine. So challenge one: find out first hand what it’s like to be on the front line that you love to second guess so much. Spend a week of full night shifts with a police unit. Then you won’t need to either “imagine” or speculate. You’ll have a clue.

Challenge Two: you need to appologise for your misguided comments in regards to the use of taser. Post a copy of your press release alongside your original comments for best effect.

From what we have seen so far it seems police are too eager to reach for their taser when they confront a suspect holding a potential weapon.

Among the incidents where the taser has already been drawn is one where a man fleeing from a burglary had a screwdriver in his hand.

Clearly, you are quite simply wrong, and your further flippant remarks in regards to this incident are simply too offensive for me to wish to reproduce them in light of the following:

Only millimetres separated a young police constable from life-threatening injury, perhaps death, when he was stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver.

The tool punctured his chest near the heart, but struck a rib rather than piercing fully into the chest cavity, The Dominion Post understands.

The 19-year-old, about three months out of police training college, was released from hospital yesterday, and is now on the road to recovery.

A young man is nearly killed by something you make a joke of to back your personal agenda of having those who’s job it is to protect us should be made to do so while defenceless in a country with spiraling violent crime.

You attitude is simply shameful.

Challenge Two Alpha would be to present this officer with your personal apology for your remarks, because you can be damn certain he is aware of them, and I very much doubt he feels that he and his colleagues have the support of either you or your party.

It’s about time you gave some thought to protecting the people that protect you, rather than the criminals they have to deal with on your behalf.

These are your challenges, I expect you to fail.

Friday Night Free For All

Sorry team, got distracted by work here at Santa’s Little Sweatshop.

Talk amongst yourselves for a bit.

Bitch slapped!

Nick Smith deals to New Zealand’s most hopeless, hapless, hack Speaker - yes, that does include the last one. You know, that fat bastard who won’t even get out of the car on ANZAC Day, and asks about getting a pension in Britain, while he’s still collecting a fat pay from the tax payer here.

Village finds its missing idiot.

Have a little read through the comments of this post at Rodney’s, and see if you can spot the imported socialist who wants to have his part in fucking up someone else’s country as much as his own.

Anyone care to discuss the comments he’s made about my mother?

Something to ponder.

Al Qaeda

Al Jazeera

Al Gore

Coincidence?

The down side of Gnome home ownership.

Ed has details of the effects of the RMA on you attempting to house your little friends.

On the right, scroll down.

Check out the funny looking boy while you’re there. Goofy looking young man he is.

Number 6 with an Elf Bolt!

Whoo hoo, gnomehomes.co.nz is now the number 6 result on Google (#1 on NZ Google but competition is a little light to be fair).

Go forth an click team, lets take out that prized number one slot from some guys who make a quite cool little modular out buildings in Winnipeg. Come guys, a Gnome would be lost in one of those things, be reasonable!

UPDATE: Look at that, just a little tweaking and we’re up to number 5. Take THAT Dennis Sheehy!

Just out of interest nearly all the second page consists of blog linkage to the my Gnome Homes as well. Now hoe to convert this into cash. Hmm…